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Kuthiraivali Pongal Recipe / Barnyard Millet Pongal Recipe

December 5, 2014 By Aarthi 6 Comments

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This is my latest favourite recipe. I love pongal a lot. I make it quite often too. Since hubby and me dont eat rice these days, i used kuthiraivali for making this and it was like super hit. I never missed rice in this. It tasted really yummy

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I served this with my all time favourite pumpkin sambar, it was so delicious. You can have it with coconut chutney or tomato chutney as well..
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
Preparation Time : 5 mins
Cooking Time : 30 mins
Serves : 3 to 4


Ingredients:

Kuthiraivali / Barnyard Millet – 1 cup
Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi Paruppu – 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Water – 4 cup
Ghee – 1 tsp


For Tempering:
Ghee – 2 tblspn
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 2 tsp
Whole Pepper – 2 tsp
Green Chillies – 2 chopped finely
Ginger – 1 tblspn
Curry leaves – a sprig

Method:

Wash dal and millet really well. Drain it and set aside.

Heat ghee in a pressure cooker. Add in dal, roast till golden. Add in millet along with water and salt. Pressure cook fo 3 whistle. Simmer for 5 mins. Turn off the heat and let them steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and mix well.

Heat ghee in a pan. Add in all the ingredients for tempering. Mix well. 

Add the cooked dal millet and mix well.

Serve with sambar  or chutney..


Pictorial:
Take all your ingredients
Kuthiraivali / Barnyard Millet
Wash them well
 Heat ghee in a pressure cooker
Add in moong dal
roast for few mins till nice aroma comes
Add in washed kuthiraivali
add salt
add water
pressure cook
all cooked
Heat ghee in a pan
Add in all the spices
Saute this
Once it turns nice and golden
Add in the cooked dal and kuthiraivali
Mix well
Serve
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Filed Under: Barnyard, Cooking with Millets, Diabetics, Diabetics Recipes, Diet Food, Millet, Pongal Recipes, Pongal Recipes, Pongal Recipes, Recent Recipes, Weight Loss Recipes, Yellow Moong Dal

About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Ambika Rathnam

    November 25, 2015 at 7:16 pm

    Hi arthi, healthy recipe.. Can we use varugu instead of barnyard millet

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  2. Aarthi

    November 26, 2015 at 1:04 pm

    @Ambika Rathnamyes u can use

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  3. Sridhanya

    January 28, 2016 at 3:20 pm

    Hey Aarthi,
    I tried it today. Yum recipie. Simple steps and pictures gave appropriate inputs. Great work.

    Thanks
    Sridhanya

    Reply
  4. Anonymous

    September 23, 2016 at 1:10 pm

    Hi Aarthi,
    I never prepared Kuthiraivali rice in my life. this is the first time i'm using it and the recipe came out awesome. as you mentioned it's tasted divine with your pumpkin sambar. All credits goes to you only 🙂 Thank you so much dear 🙂 keep up the good work.

    Best Regards
    Rani

    Reply
  5. pugal

    October 8, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    Thanks for the great recipe, Awesome 🙂

    Reply

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